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Anxiety disorders can be extremely scary to live with. They keep you in a state of fear in anticipation that something terrible might happen, a feeling that you’re under threat. Though the sense of being under threat can be real or imaginary, the effects are devastating. Most people who haven’t experienced extreme anxiety or a panic attack, cannot understand how terrifying the experience is. There’s a sensation of losing control, the heart throbs violently, the chest tightens leading to breathlessness, dizziness takes over and you don’t’ feel all there… It’s as if part of you is present, while another part of you is absent!
When these symptoms take place and you don’t understand why they’re happening, you feel as if you’re losing your mind or have developed a serious illness. Struggling with anxiety without seeking treatment, can lead to a marked increase in your levels of anxiety until they recur daily and become unbearable.
Understanding anxiety and the different kinds of anxiety disorders is the first step in dealing with them. It’s important to get yourself diagnosed by a doctor or psychologist instead of trying to self diagnose. The thing is, while going through anxiety, it can seem like you’re suffering from another medical condition such as a heart attack, so a proper medical assessment is crucial. There are five kinds of major anxiety disorders, though it is possible to have symptoms of more than one anxiety disorder at the same time. For example, people can suffer from panic attacks along with any of these anxiety disorders:
1. Panic Disorder is a severe anxiety disorder during which a person often has panic attacks or lives in constant fear of having one. The intensity can be so extreme that it can feel as if you’re about to die or lose your mind! This can leave a person perpetually in a state of fear or anxiety of having another episode.
2. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a result of having gone through a serious accident, injury, or assault or having seen a loved one go through the ordeal. The trauma leaves a strong impact on a person’s mind, the manifestation of which are panic attacks.
3. Social Anxiety is when you are panicky or anxious about social situations since you feel you’ll end up making a fool of yourself and being ridiculed for it.
4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is when you have obsessive thoughts that lead to compulsive behavior patterns that become rituals. This can take the form of constantly straightening things, obsessively washing your hands, counting or repeating words to yourself.
5. Generalized Anxiety Disorder is having constant and excessive anxiety over a period of six months or more. You feel that something may or may not happen and this leads to a lot of stress. It’s as if you worry about everything in life! as you can imagine, GAD can be extremely tiring and debilitating.
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